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2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

If you haven't seen the News post for today (11/20/11), the new round of CafePress designs is now live in the Shop. The second post in this thread will have a complete inventory of all the new designs, but first, let's get to the coupon code. As CafePress changes the sale terms, we'll update them here so that everyone can be sure to have the latest deal.

No current coupon.

December 13–16: $10 off on orders over $50. Coupon Code: FDEC1150

December 10–12: $15 off on orders over $75. Coupon Code: SDEC1175

December 5–8: 10% off on all orders over $40. Coupon Code: TDEC1140

December 3: Save about 10% on sweatshirts and hoodies, no coupon needed.

November 29–December 1: 15% off on all orders over $45. Coupon Code: ADEC1145

November 24-27: Save $0.50 off of ornaments and $1 off of stockings, no coupon needed.

November 19-22: Save $5 off purchases of $30 of more. Coupon Code: LNOV1130

Coupon Fine Print:Excluding shipping charges, gift wrap charges and applicable sales tax. All orders must be added to cart from cafepress.com shops only. Excludes CafePress marketplace purchases (e.g. all products added to cart from URLs beginning with the following (i) http://shop.cafepress.com, (ii) http://t-shirts.cafepress.com and/or (iii) http://www.cafepress.com/sk/), Gift Certificates, Flip products, SIGG bottles and CafePress Make and bulk orders. Coupon code must be entered at check out. Promotion starts at 12:00 a.m. (PST) on indicated start date and ends at 11:59 p.m. (PST) on end date. Offer valid online at CafePress.com only, cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotions and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice. This promotion cannot be applied to past orders.

Based on the stick figure family stickers that seem to be popping up on every car, these car stickers and magnets show that you are a true connoisseur of stick figure excellence:

The following designs are a continuation of our OOTS for Kids! line that we started last year. The original designs featuring the OOTS members themselves are, of course, still available.

We also are carrying laptop skins for the first time ever, in a variety of sizes. In addition to bringing some of the above designs (and a few of the existing ones) over, the following two designs are unique to the laptop skin:

EDIT: Forgot to mention that we also now have OOTS shot glasses, in a variety of characters.

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Originally Posted by The Giant

I wonder if this picture implies Leeky Windstaff is a part of the current iteration of the Linear Guild. Probably just needed someone to fill Durkon's place, but it's a possibility! I can live in hope.

Anyway, some nice designs in there. I must say I find the "My Evil Twin Did It" design incredibly cute.

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Which designs are available as messenger bags? I like this bag, but so far I've only found it in this and the Turn Undead design. I'd really love to have one with the OOTS quotes - "One Saving Throw at a Time" is probably my favourite, but I also love "I'm Participating!"

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it."
~ Maya Angelou

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

I like the designs. Is it just my bad english, though, or is there a typo in the speech bubble in "Neutral"?

It is not just you. There's a typo.

This design is temporarily unavailable while I fix the problem.

Typo fixed on the actual products now. I will update the ad banners appropriately as well.

As far a I can tell, two people ordered the Neutral design with the typo in the last hour, but unless CafePress is far, FAR more efficient than I think they are, the production of the products won't start for several hours yet, and thus the shirts will have the corrected art. If anyone happens to actually receive a misprinted shirt, they can be returned to CafePress for a new one. My apologies for the mistake.

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Originally Posted by happyturtle

Which designs are available as messenger bags? I like this bag, but so far I've only found it in this and the Turn Undead design. I'd really love to have one with the OOTS quotes - "One Saving Throw at a Time" is probably my favourite, but I also love "I'm Participating!"

The messenger bag is a newer product from CafePress. It didn't exist as an option when the Quote shirts were made, and thus only some of the new designs are available on it. The same goes for certain shirt styles. In the case of the bag, specifically, I didn't put the design on many products due to the expense of the bag and the yellowish natural tint it gives to the artwork...I only chose designs that I thought wouldn't look awful if tinted in that way.

While it is possible I may go back someday and update every shirt design to have every new style/product, it's unlikely that I will get a chance to do so anytime soon, as that would literally take hours of clicking through and checking them all.

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Typo fixed on the actual products now. I will update the ad banners appropriately as well.

As far a I can tell, two people ordered the Neutral design with the typo in the last hour, but unless CafePress is far, FAR more efficient than I think they are, the production of the products won't start for several hours yet, and thus the shirts will have the corrected art. If anyone happens to actually receive a misprinted shirt, they can be returned to CafePress for a new one. My apologies for the mistake.

Pff, it's not a mis-print, it's a very limited collector's edition T-shirt.

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Oooh, looks like a lot of people will get specific instructions what I want for Christmas <3

I love the Fantasy fantasy and Turn Undead designs. And the laptop skins. And the car stickers. Oh, who am I kidding, I love all of the designs

Also, I'll get the two new ornaments
(Quick question, does anybody actually hang them on the tree? I'm too cautious to use them as decoration: Christmas at our place often plays out like Housecat vs. Christmas tree. If I think about it too much, it actually makes me a bit sad )

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Originally Posted by The Giant

I've seen the stickers in cars, too - so have a question about these OOTS variety -- Are these just a big bumper sticker, or do the stick figures stick directly to the window (inside or outside) w/o the black background?

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Ordering of gifts for my daughter, wife, and I will commence immediately! Great job Mr. Giant (Rich), I really like your comic and I appreciate the free membership to an awesome forum. Thanks for all your hard work and I look forward to reading in the future!

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Originally Posted by SteveDJ

I've seen the stickers in cars, too - so have a question about these OOTS variety -- Are these just a big bumper sticker, or do the stick figures stick directly to the window (inside or outside) w/o the black background?

The black background is there, but the whole sticker is a translucent "see-thru." So you can stick it to the outside of the window and still see through it while driving. Or you can switch it to a traditional opaque bumper sticker (or car magnet), your choice.

(I did try to get rid of the black background altogether and just have white outlines, but because CafePress shows the image of the item on a white background, it looked like I was trying to sell blank rectangles. I didn't think many people would buy that.)

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Giant-

You deserve to earn money from content this good. In past years I have placed orders and thrown away the product because your work should produce healthy income for you but I do not like my home to be cluttered with things. I do not want to buy and throw-away this year. As someone who checks this site daily, I want it to bring as much joy to you as it does to me and income-production contributes to that (it's obviously not everything). What do you suggest? For me the ads on the forum have been ideal.

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Originally Posted by eusticepious

Giant-

You deserve to earn money from content this good. In past years I have placed orders and thrown away the product because your work should produce healthy income for you but I do not like my home to be cluttered with things. I do not want to buy and throw-away this year. As someone who checks this site daily, I want it to bring as much joy to you as it does to me and income-production contributes to that (it's obviously not everything). What do you suggest? For me the ads on the forum have been ideal.

Best,
Eustice Pious

Whatever else, please stop doing that. Creating items and then throwing them away just produces meaningless waste in the world, and the environment has enough problems as it is. It is far, far more upsetting to me that you would order my products just to put them into a landfill than that you would simply not buy them at all. I would rather have less money than I would be responsible for that. It literally goes against everything I personally believe.

If you really want to bring me joy and don't want to own a piece of merchandise, take the money you would have spent and donate it to a charity. Preferably an environmentally-based one, such as African Wildlife Foundation or the Nature Conservancy. Or, if that's not palatable, then just don't spend anything. I will consider it a boon to know that I'm not contributing to more garbage.

Re: 2011 OOTS Ornament + New CafePress Shirts, Laptop Skins, etc.

Giant,

I ordered some merchandise (both for me and my daughter). I love the art work, quotes are hilarious, read the comic - generally I'm a huge fan of your stuff. But I have to tell you it's hard to bring myself to pay $22-30 dollars for a printed t-shirt. I appreciate that your trying to make money and I'm sure cafepress requires a large sum of that money too, I just thought I would post that if the shirts were in the $15 - 20 dollar range I would buy more of them.